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• THE VINE INTER CHURCH PRIMARY SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP WITH TSUCHIURA NIHON UNIVERSITY SECONDARY SCHOOL

  Wed 24 Jul 2019 C Shepherd

  Our school is a multi-cultural community and we strive to encourage and develop citizenship in preparation for life within the local, national and global communities. We do our best to live the Vine Vision, it states in our school prayer that we believe we should have a love of one another and have a love of mankind. We have a thirst for learning about our world and our international learning has gone from strength to strength. In 2017 we were awarded the British Council award for International Learning.

  For the last ten years the Vine Inter Church Primary School has played host to students from Tsuchiura Nihon University Secondary School. It has been a fantastic opportunity to share learning, languages and different cultures. This year the Japanese students led a whole school worship sharing information about the fantastic country of Japan. We learnt about the landscape, dress, foods, music, entertainment, language and what their school is like.  The students then held a quiz for the whole school. We were really impressed with how they spoke clearly in English; they explained they had been practising very hard.

  We generally host between 20 – 30 students each year and they visit the different year groups around the school during their time with us. During this time, they taught our pupils how to write their names in Japanese. Some of pupils had opportunity to create origami cranes, some had a go at new juggling skills and others learnt how to write their name in Japanese. We feel so privileged to be able to host them each year and are currently looking at ways to create sustainable partnership over the year.

  Please take a few moments to look at the photographs of their visit.

  

• ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream ‘ The Vine Inter-Church Primary School

  Fri 19 Jul 2019 L Dive

  Year 6 at The Vine always perform a play at the end of their time at our school. This year we performed Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream … or our version of it anyway, but we think that William Shakespeare would have been proud of us because it was still a masterpiece! We made it truly our own.

  After studying Twelfth Night in English lessons, the news that we were to perform another Shakespeare came as a great surprise! The only problem was; Mr Shakespeare didn’t write the play for The Vine so there weren’t enough characters for us all to perform a part. So, we had a lot of fun adding some: we made up a very jobsworthy bodyguard for Duke Theseus (who eventually got the sack) and an extra mechanical (the workmen who perform their play for the royal wedding) who burst into song at every possible opportunity (and was told to shut up just as often!). We don’t think that Will would have minded that we added a few – he was a jobbing actor, after all. We had boys dresses as girls (just like in Elizabethan days), people turning into asses (just like in Eliz … well, maybe not) and a fairy and a mortal court with lots of problems.

  We rehearsed practically every day for four weeks and when we had learned our lines and left our scripts in the classroom, we found it so much easier to act our parts and our performances improved dramatically. We had a lot of fun putting cheesy actions to the songs and now we all want to go on Britain’s Got Talent! We would totally win. Simon would press that golden buzzer!

  It is always a pleasure seeing the quiet and shy among our year group singing and dancing and doing some very silly things and this year was no different! We also know that if Shakespeare is a bit hard sometimes and that’s ok too. We just stick with it and persevere and end by understanding the strange language and odd names.

  Then came the Big Day. It began with a full Dress Rehearsal in front of the entire school  (over 300 people) and the evening performance to our parents and friends.

  We were nervous …

  we were excited  ….

  WE WERE FABULOUS!!

   

   

  

• 2019 Book Week Writing Competition

  Fri 12 Jul 2019
  Pop along to Pupil Zone to read the fantastic winning stories.